Semantic Layer Contract Job Trends in England

Semantic Layer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Semantic Layer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 513 531
Rank change year-on-year -44 +18 +68
Contract jobs citing Semantic Layer 80 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.025% 0.012%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.17% 0.14% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 6 4
10th Percentile £404 £386 -
25th Percentile £455 £478 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £563 £606
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -7.22% +1.04%
75th Percentile £682 £594 £725
90th Percentile £750 £600 -
UK median daily rate £570 £563 £606
% change year-on-year +1.33% -7.22% +1.04%

All Database & BI Skills
England

Semantic Layer falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,859 5,020 5,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.88% 18.20% 18.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,587 3,449 4,128
10th Percentile £356 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £675
90th Percentile £712 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 73 82
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.06 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.16 £29.07 £21.44
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +20.00% -34.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £40.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -0.16% +14.99% -36.36%

Semantic Layer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Semantic Layer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Semantic Layer job vacancy trend in England

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Semantic Layer in England over the 6 months to 21 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Semantic Layer in England

Semantic Layer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Layer within the England region over the 6 months to 21 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -31 55 £570 +11.22% 158
North of England - 15 £438 - 21
Yorkshire - 8 £450 - 7
North West - 7 £425 - 14
South East -63 3 £700 +52.17% 27
South West - 2 £575 - 10
East of England -28 1 - - 5
Midlands -46 1 - - 5
West Midlands -46 1 - - 5
Semantic Layer
UK

Semantic Layer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) Appian
3 1 (1.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.50%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.25%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 35 (43.75%) Power Platform
2 28 (35.00%) Azure
3 21 (26.25%) dbt
4 13 (16.25%) Snowflake
5 12 (15.00%) SaaS
6 11 (13.75%) AWS
7 9 (11.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (8.75%) GCP
9 6 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (6.25%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (5.00%) Amazon Neptune
11 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (5.00%) Azure Stack
12 3 (3.75%) GitHub
13 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
13 2 (2.50%) Fivetran
13 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (2.50%) Semaphore
13 2 (2.50%) Serverless
13 2 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (43.75%) Power BI
2 19 (23.75%) Star Schema
3 18 (22.50%) Metadata
4 16 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (20.00%) Looker
5 10 (12.50%) BigQuery
6 9 (11.25%) Data Lake
6 9 (11.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 9 (11.25%) Snowflake Schema
7 8 (10.00%) Tableau
8 7 (8.75%) Power Query
9 6 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (6.25%) Delta Lake
11 4 (5.00%) Data Hub
11 4 (5.00%) Data Mart
11 4 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (5.00%) Stardog
12 3 (3.75%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (3.75%) Neo4j
12 3 (3.75%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Git
2 2 (2.50%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.25%) ERwin
3 1 (1.25%) PowerDesigner
General
1 23 (28.75%) Finance
2 16 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (17.50%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Marketing
4 6 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Retail
6 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.25%) Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (31.25%) Architect
2 19 (23.75%) Data Engineer
3 18 (22.50%) Data Architect
4 10 (12.50%) Senior
5 8 (10.00%) Lead
6 6 (7.50%) Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Head of AI
8 4 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
8 4 (5.00%) Data Modeller
8 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Data Consultant
9 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Information Architect
9 3 (3.75%) SAP Architect
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Architect
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.00%) PySpark
2 3 (3.75%) JSON
3 2 (2.50%) Apache Jena
3 2 (2.50%) JSON-LD
3 2 (2.50%) LangGraph
3 2 (2.50%) YAML
4 1 (1.25%) FHIR
4 1 (1.25%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.25%) Jinja
4 1 (1.25%) Kafka
4 1 (1.25%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.25%) REST
4 1 (1.25%) SWRL
4 1 (1.25%) Terraform
4 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (8.75%) Data Structures
2 7 (8.75%) Taxonomies
3 5 (6.25%) AI Agents
3 5 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.00%) Clustering
4 4 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.75%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.50%) Linked Data
6 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.25%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.25%) IoT
7 1 (1.25%) Life Science
7 1 (1.25%) NHS
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (76.25%) Data Modelling
2 60 (75.00%) Analytics
3 52 (65.00%) Business Intelligence
4 38 (47.50%) AI
5 27 (33.75%) Data Pipeline
6 25 (31.25%) Data Engineering
6 25 (31.25%) Data Governance
7 19 (23.75%) CI/CD
7 19 (23.75%) Decision-Making
7 19 (23.75%) Lakehouse
8 18 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (21.25%) Data Architecture
9 17 (21.25%) Data Transformation
9 17 (21.25%) Performance Optimisation
10 15 (18.75%) Use Case
11 14 (17.50%) Dimensional Modelling
12 12 (15.00%) Machine Learning
12 12 (15.00%) Migration
13 11 (13.75%) LLM
13 11 (13.75%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (61.25%) SQL
2 24 (30.00%) Python
3 16 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (7.50%) LookML
5 3 (3.75%) SHACL
5 3 (3.75%) SPARQL
6 1 (1.25%) Cypher
6 1 (1.25%) Gremlin
6 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
2 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.75%) Degree
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.25%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (33.75%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.75%) GDPR
3 5 (6.25%) QA
4 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.50%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.25%) HL7
6 1 (1.25%) SLA
6 1 (1.25%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 1 (1.25%) Apache Ranger
1 1 (1.25%) Grafana
1 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (26.25%) Databricks
2 18 (22.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.00%) Oracle
3 4 (5.00%) SAP
4 3 (3.75%) Google
5 2 (2.50%) Ariba
5 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.25%) Foundry
6 1 (1.25%) Palantir